Afleveringen
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World leaders express hopes for cooperation with the United States after former President Donald Trump’s comeback election win; Israel faces a deadline to increase humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip or risk restrictions on U.S. military funding; Azerbaijan prepares to host the twenty-ninth UN climate conference (COP29) as concerns grow that climate targets could fall short; and Moldova’s election spurs hopes of European Union ties.
Mentioned on the Podcast
Clea Caulcutt, Barbara Moens, Nicholas Vinocur, “Macron to Europe: We Need to Become ‘Omnivores’ After Trump’s Victory,” Politico
Alice Hill, “COP29 Summit in Baku: What to Expect,” CFR.org
“Trump and the Future of American Power: A Conversation With Stephen Kotkin,” Foreign Affairs
For an episode transcript and show notes, visit The World Next Week at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/twnw/world-reacts-trump-win-israels-gaza-aid-deadline-nears-azerbaijans-climate-summit-and-more
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In this special episode of The World Next Week, hosts Robert McMahon and Carla Anne Robbins discuss how news outlets around the world are reporting on the November 5 U.S. elections and how it reflects on public and government interests.
Mentioned on the Podcast
American Evolution 2024, The Straits Times
Pierre Breteau, “2024 U.S. Presidential Election: Try Our Swing State Results Simulator,” Le Monde
Campaign Notebook, International Edition, Columbia Journalism Review
Alistair Campbell and Rory Stewart, The Rest is Politics, Goalhanger
Emilio Casalicchio, “Meet the Gun-Toting Brits Who Will Vote for Donald Trump,” Politico Europe
Katty Kay and Anthony Scaramucci, The Rest Is Politics: US
James M. Lindsay, “Election 2024: How to Respond to the Axis of Autocracies,” CFR.org
The U.S. Election and Foreign Policy, CFR.org
“Why Is the World Obsessed with the U.S. Election? Ask Germany,” Why It Matters
For an episode transcript and show notes, visit The World Next Week at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/twnw/twnw-special-surveying-foreign-media-coverage-us-election-2024
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Zijn er afleveringen die ontbreken?
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France seeks to spur international support for humanitarian aid for Lebanon as fighting grinds on between Israel and Hezbollah; Japan holds a snap general election as Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru hopes to rally the embattled and longtime ruling Liberal Democratic Party; Georgia heads to the polls in an election that could shift the country away from the European Union and firmly into Russia’s orbit; and China and India reach a border deal.
Mentioned on the Podcast
Mariel Ferragamo, “What Is the BRICS Group and Why Is It Expanding?,” CFR.org
For an episode transcript and show notes, visit The World Next Week at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/twnw/france-presses-lebanon-aid-japan-holds-snap-election-georgias-divided-vote-and-more
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The summit of the BRICS group begins in Russia, the first meeting since formally welcoming Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates into the bloc; European leaders discuss migration after a series of calls for speedier deportations and revised asylum processes; Colombia hosts the UN Biodiversity Summit; and Canada expels six Indian diplomats tied to the murder of a Sikh separatist.
Mentioned on the Podcast
“The Drug Lords’ Side-Hustle: Smuggling Macaws, Jaguars and Frogs,” The Economist
“Living Planet Report 2024,” World Wildlife Fund
“A Warning Sign: Where Biodiversity Loss Is Happening Around the World,” World Wildlife Fund
For an episode transcript and show notes, visit The World Next Week at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/twnw/russia-hosts-brics-summit-eu-leaders-talk-migration-un-biodiversity-summit-kicks-and-more
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Intelligence officials warn of foreign meddling in the U.S. presidential and congressional elections; Hurricane Milton marks second straight weather blow to the U.S. southeast; this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner is announced in Norway; and Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico vows to block Ukraine’s bid to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Mentioned on the Podcast
The U.S. Election and Foreign Policy, CFR.org
Virtual Media Briefing: Technology and Electoral Dynamics, Council on Foreign Relations and Brookings Institution
“Malala Yousafzai: Nobel Peace Prize Lecture 2014,” Nobel Prize
For an episode transcript and show notes, visit The World Next Week at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/twnw/meddling-us-elections-florida-reels-twin-storms-nobel-peace-laureate-be-named-and-more
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Hostilities between Iran and Israel reach a new level after Israel’s ground invasion in southern Lebanon and the latest Iranian missile attack on Israel; U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump hold separate town halls to reach undecided Hispanic voters; U.S. President Joe Biden heads to Germany to shore up military support for Ukraine; and Norway considers building a fence on its border with Russia.
Mentioned on the Podcast
One Year Later: U.S. Policy Options in the Israel-Hamas War, Council on Foreign Relations
Virtual Media Briefing: Israel, Gaza, and the Middle East a Year After the Hamas Attack, Council on Foreign Relations
For an episode transcript and show notes, visit The World Next Week at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/twnw/iran-israel-escalation-harris-and-trump-seek-hispanic-vote-biden-germany-and-more
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy intensifies efforts to galvanize greater political and financial support; Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) will elect a new leader to become the next prime minister; the United States and Canada each impose a 100 percent tariff on Chinese electric vehicles (EVs); and Sri Lanka’s new president, Marxist Anura Kumara Dissanayake, calls for national elections.
Mentioned on the Podcast
Kimberly Clausing and Mary E. Lovely, “Why Trump's Tariff Proposals Would Harm Working Americans,” Peterson Institute for International Economics
Joshua Yaffa, “Volodymyr Zelenskyy Has a Plan for Ukraine’s Victory,” New Yorker
Sheila A. Smith, “The LDP Leadership Race: Six More Join, a Field of Nine,” CFR.org
Sheila A. Smith, “The LDP Leadership Race: The Early Birds,” CFR.org
For an episode transcript and show notes, visit The World Next Week at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/twnw/zelenskyys-diplomatic-drive-japans-new-leader-us-and-canadian-tariffs-chinas-evs-and-more
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The UN General Assembly begins its seventy-ninth high-level debate amid questions about its limited role in resolving major conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East; fears of a wider regional war grow as Hezbollah vows retaliation against Israel after thousands of pagers exploded across Lebanon; U.S. President Joe Biden hosts the leaders of the Quad in Wilmington, Delaware, to strengthen coordination in the Indo-Pacific region; and Russia seeks to add 180,000 troops to its army.
Mentioned on the Podcast
A Conversation With U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Council on Foreign Relations
Ronen Bergman, Sheera Frenkel, and Hwaida Saad, “How Israel Built a Modern-Day Trojan Horse: Exploding Pagers,” New York Times
Natalie Caloca and Paul B. Stares, “Security Challenges Cloud UN’s Summit of the Future”, CFR.org
For an episode transcript and show notes, visit The World Next Week at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/twnw/un-meets-tense-times-pager-explosions-rattle-hezbollah-bidens-last-quad-summit-and-more
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The U.S. Congress returns from its summer recess to try to pass a budget for federal discretionary programs before the fiscal year ends and avoid a government shutdown; the United States and other Western allies accuse Iran of transferring ballistic missiles to Russia, raising concerns over intensified strikes on Ukraine; Hungary faces a second deadline to pay a $221 million fine for breaking European Union asylum law, which President Viktor Orbán remains unwilling to follow; and China gifts Cambodia two newly built Type 056 corvette warships, raising questions about Beijing’s naval ambitions.
Mentioned on the Podcast
Zongyuan Zoe Liu, “Tracking China’s Control of Overseas Ports,” CFR.org
For an episode transcript and show notes, visit The World Next Week at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/twnw/congresss-funding-battle-iran-sends-missiles-russia-orban-defies-eu-and-more
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The United States, Egypt, and Qatar prepare another cease-fire proposal after Hamas killed six Israeli hostages and Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu demanded control of the Philadelphi Corridor along the Gaza-Egypt border; Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump hold their first presidential debate; the Toronto International Film Festival showcases independent films spanning from Hungary to Georgia and more; and the United States seizes Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s plane.
What to Watch at Toronto International Film Festival
Edward Berger, Conclave
William Bridges, All of You
Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
Dea Kulumbegashvili, April
Mentioned on the Podcast
Brett Goldstein, Bill Lawrence, Jason Segel, Shrinking
Brendan Hunt, Joe Kelly, Bill Lawrence, Ted Lasso
For an episode transcript and show notes, visit The World Next Week at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/twnw/gazas-troubled-cease-fire-efforts-harris-and-trump-debate-toronto-international-film-fest
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the incursion into Kursk is an important step towards ending the war with Russia, but Ukraine is facing a major test in its own Donbas battlefields; the intensifying mpox outbreak places additional strain on the Democratic Republic of Congo and surrounding African nations; heightened security tensions spur the United States, keeping nuclear defense planners busy; and the Taliban bans the voices of women and girls in public.
Mentioned on the Podcast
“Countries Should Act Faster to Curb the Spread of Mpox,” The Economist
“If a China and America War Went Nuclear, Who Would Win?,” The Economist
Allison Krugman and Chloe Searchinger, “Mpox Vaccine Tracker: Millions Pledged, Millions Still to Be Delivered,” Think Global Health
David E. Sanger, “Biden Approved Secret Nuclear Strategy Refocusing on Chinese Threat,” New York Times
Lara Seligman, “U.S.-Made F-16 Jet Fighter Crashes in Ukraine,” Wall Street Journal
“Ukraine’s Attack on Kursk, With Liana Fix,” The President’s Inbox
“Ukraine Pushes Into Russia, 2024 DNC Begins, Foreign Hacking Targets Trump and Harris, and More,” The World Next Week
For an episode transcript and show notes, visit The World Next Week at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/twnw/stakes-ukraines-kursk-offensive-stopping-mpox-spread-nuclear-arms-race-returns-and-more
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This special episode of The World Next Week features a summerlong feast of reading, watching, and listening treats. Deborah Amos, the Ferris Professor of Journalism in Residence at Princeton University and a former international correspondent for National Public Radio, joins CFR’s TWNW hosts Robert McMahon and Carla Anne Robbins to discuss good reads they recommend, books they are looking forward to reading, and other entertainment they are enjoying this summer.
Mentioned on the Podcast
Bob’s Picks
Elizabeth Kolbert, H Is for Hope: Climate Change from A to Z
Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday: Memoirs of a European
Carla’s Picks
Steve Coll, The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the CIA, and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
Peter Pomerantsev, How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler
Deborah’s Picks
Jayne Anne Phillips, Night Watch
Nathan Thrall, A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
Additional Books, Films, Podcasts, Shows and More Mentioned on the Podcast
Books
Russell Baker, Growing Up
Ron Chernow, Grant
Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Roy Stewart, The Places In Between
Films
Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel
James Bridges, The China Syndrome
George Clooney, Good Night, and Good Luck.
Alex Garland, Civil War
Howard Hawks, His Girl Friday
Roland Joffé, The Killing Fields
Richard Linklater, Hit Man
Sidney Lumet, Network
Alan J. Pakula, All the President's Men
Peter Weir, The Year of Living Dangerously
Podcasts
Alistair Campbell and Rory Stewart, The Rest is Politics, Goalhanger
Jon Ronson, Things Fell Apart, BBC Radio 4
Television Shows
Jez Scharf, Bodkin
David Simon, The Wire
Aaron Sorkin, The Newsroom
Other
The Reckoning Project
“Watch the U.S. Stall on Climate Change for 12 Years,” Vox
For an episode transcript and show notes, visit The World Next Week at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/twnw-special-what-read-summer-2024
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Ukraine’s surprise incursion of Russia’s Kursk region captures territory and stuns the Kremlin; the Democratic National Convention kicks off in Chicago with concerns of divisions in the party over support for Israel in its war in the Gaza Strip; U.S. intelligence is on high alert after foreign hacking attempts on both former President Donald Trump’s and Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaigns; and Mexico turns down Ukraine’s request for it to uphold warrants to arrest Russian President Vladimir Putin by the International Criminal Court.
Mentioned on the Podcast
Tim Alberta, “Trump Is Planning for a Landslide Win,” The Atlantic
Kevin Collier, Ken Dilanian, and Dan De Luce, “FBI Says It's Investigating Efforts to Hack Trump and Biden-Harris Campaigns,” NBC News
Alina Lobzina and Anton Troianovski, “Ukraine’s Incursion Into Russia Flips the Script on Putin,” New York Times
Jonathan Weisman, “Worried About a Convention Clash, Democrats Woo Uncommitted Delegates,” New York Times
For an episode transcript and show notes, visit The World Next Week at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/twnw/ukraine-pushes-russia-2024-dnc-begins-foreign-hacking-targets-trump-and-harris-and-more
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Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her new running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, campaign ahead of the party’s convention; world leaders and diplomats reach out to Iran and Israel to head off a wider regional war after the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran spurred retaliation threats; Bangladesh prepares an interim government after former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled the country; and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government responds to anti-immigrant riots across the country.
Mentioned on the Podcast
Fred Kaplan, “Kamala Harris Has Been Much More Involved in Foreign Policy Than We Realize,” Slate
Jonathan Masters, “The U.S. Vice President and Foreign Policy,” CFR.org
Recommended Reading
Swift Boats at War in Vietnam, edited by Guy Gugliotta, Neva Sullaway, John Yeoman
For an episode transcript and show notes, visit The World Next Week at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/twnw/us-presidential-campaign-picks-iran-mulls-retaliation-bangladeshs-new-government-and-more
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The Middle East braces for the possibility of a full-scale war between Israel and Iran-backed forces after the assassinations of Hamas senior leader Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr; Venezuelans protest the results of the presidential election that grant incumbent President Nicolás Maduro a third term; the Edinburgh Festival Fringe spotlights wide-ranging, new talent; imprisoned journalists in Russia are freed in a major prisoner swap; and militant groups kill troops from Russia’s private military company Wagner Group, including a Wagner commander, in Mali.
Mentioned on the Podcast
Steven A. Cook, “Are Israel and Iran Headed for All Out War?,” CFR.org
Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Edinburgh Festival Fringe App
Edinburgh Fringe Festival Recommendation Lists: Independent, Playbill, and Time Out Magazine
Kali Robinson, “What Is Hamas?,” CFR.org
For an episode transcript and show notes, visit The World Next Week at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/twnw/israel-iran-tensions-escalate-venezuela-election-questioned-edinburgh-fringe-shines-and
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Global leaders react to U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision to drop out of the 2024 race and endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for the Democratic nomination; France ramps up security measures as the Summer Olympics kick off in Paris; Diplomacy continues over a potential Israel-Hamas cease-fire after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the U.S. Congress; and a Russian court sentences two American journalists.
Mentioned on the Podcast
Charles A. Kupchan, “Biden’s Legacy: Major Accomplishments but Unfinished Business,” CFR.org
Linda Robinson, “Vice President Kamala Harris’s Real-World School of Foreign Policy,” CFR.org
“Politics and Protest at the Olympics,” CFR.org
Suzanne Lynch and Ben Munster, “‘Invisible’ Kamala Harris Struggles to Win Over Europe,” Politico
For an episode transcript and show notes, visit The World Next Week at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/twnw/world-reacts-biden-withdrawal-summer-olympics-begin-gaza-diplomacy-after-netanyahus-visit
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The world reacts to the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the selection of Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as former President Donald Trump’s running mate; Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint session of Congress; Cyprus marks fifty years since the Turkish invasion that left the country still split in two; and Nepal’s Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli begins his fourth term in office.
Mentioned on the Podcast
Steven Cook, “Netanyahu’s High-Stakes Visit to Washington,” CFR.org
Ross Douthat, “What J.D. Vance Believes,” New York Times
For an episode transcript and show notes, visit The World Next Week at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/gop-election-enthusiasm-netanyahu-addresses-us-congress-cyprus-50-years-after-invasion-and
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) wraps its seventy-fifth summit, pledging to keep Ukraine on an “irreversible” path to membership while concerns grow about the future of U.S. commitment; Japan hosts the tenth Pacific Islands Leaders Meeting to counter China’s influence in the region; France struggles to form a government as party differences intensify; and President-Elect Masoud Pezeshkian raises hopes for possible change in Iran.
Mentioned on the Podcast
A Conversation With Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen of Denmark, Council on Foreign Relations
Emmanuel Macron, “A Letter to the French People,” Le Parisien
Pacific Aid Map, Lowy Institute
Ray Takeyh, “What Could Change Under Iran’s New ‘Reformist’ President?,” CFR.org
Washington Summit Declaration, NATO
Sarah Wheaton, “Orbán’s Humble Pie,” Politico
For an episode transcript and show notes, visit The World Next Week at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/nato-and-ukraine-beyond-75-japan-hosts-pacific-islands-frances-political-gridlock-and-more
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This special episode of The World Next Week features a summerlong feast of reading, watching, and listening treats. Deborah Amos, the Ferris Professor of Journalism in Residence at Princeton University and a former international correspondent for National Public Radio, joins CFR’s TWNW hosts Robert McMahon and Carla Anne Robbins to discuss good reads they recommend, books they are looking forward to reading, and other entertainment they are enjoying this summer.
Mentioned on the Podcast
Bob’s Picks
Elizabeth Kolbert, H Is for Hope: Climate Change from A to Z
Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday: Memoirs of a European
Carla’s Picks
Steve Coll, The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the CIA, and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
Peter Pomerantsev, How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler
Deborah’s Picks
Jayne Anne Phillips, Night Watch
Nathan Thrall, A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
Additional Books, Films, Podcasts, Shows and More Mentioned on the Podcast
Books
Russell Baker, Growing Up
Ron Chernow, Grant
Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Roy Stewart, The Places In Between
Films
Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel
James Bridges, The China Syndrome
George Clooney, Good Night, and Good Luck.
Alex Garland, Civil War
Howard Hawks, His Girl Friday
Roland Joffé, The Killing Fields
Richard Linklater, Hit Man
Sidney Lumet, Network
Alan J. Pakula, All the President's Men
Peter Weir, The Year of Living Dangerously
Podcasts
Alistair Campbell and Rory Stewart, The Rest is Politics, Goalhanger
Jon Ronson, Things Fell Apart, BBC Radio 4
Television Shows
Jez Scharf, Bodkin
David Simon, The Wire
Aaron Sorkin, The Newsroom
Other
The Reckoning Project
“Watch the U.S. Stall on Climate Change for 12 Years,” Vox
For an episode transcript and show notes, visit The World Next Week at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/twnw-special-what-read-summer-2024
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France’s governance is at stake as it holds snap elections for its National Assembly, with the far-right National Rally looking to build on its success in the European Parliament elections; the United Kingdom (UK) has its own snap general elections with Keir Starmer and his Labour Party looking to end the fourteen-year rule of the Conservatives; Iran’s snap presidential elections could signal unity of regime hard-liners or glimmers of change; the European Union (EU) plans to impose provisional tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles; and Ukraine strikes more than thirty Russian oil refineries.
Mentioned on the Podcast
Amanda Chu, Kenza Bryan, and Lukanyo Mnyanda, “Global Glut Turns Solar Panels into Garden Fencing Option,” Financial Times
Ian Johnston, “French Voters Juggle Democratic Duty and Summer Getaways,” Financial Times
David Lammy, “The Case for Progressive Realism,” Foreign Affairs
Matthias Matthijs, “Pivotal Elections for France—and Europe,” CFR.org
Ray Takeyh, “Does Iran’s Presidential Election Matter?,” CFR.org
Sergey Vakulenko; Michael Liebreich, Lauri Myllyvirta, and Sam Winter-Levy, “Should Ukraine Keep Attacking Russian Oil Refineries?,” Foreign Affairs
For an episode transcript and show notes, visit The World Next Week at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/france-iran-and-uk-hold-snap-elections-eu-pushback-chinese-evs-and-more
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